Improvement in bale-ties



G. W. MOUL TON.

BALE-TIE.

N0.173,737. Patented. Feb. 22,1876.

m'i/zsses Inventor N FETER5, PHDTO-LITHOGRAPH ER, WASHINGTON, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

GEORGE W. MOULTON, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALE-TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,737, dated February 22, 1876; application filed December 27, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, G. W. MOULTON, of Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bale-Ties, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part of this specification, in which Figure l is a plan view of the tie. a side view of the same.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts Fig. 2-is in the views presented.

on itself, and over the head, making a hook,

J, Fig. 2. The extreme end of said hook is turned back over the hook J thereby forming a hook, N, substantially as shown in the draw ings, Figs. 1 and 2.

This tie is for. the use of wire bands, and which is applied to the bale as follows In one end of the wire band is made a loop, J ,which is put on the hook J, as shown in the drawin gs. The wire is then carried around the bale, and the end thereof passed up through the slot 6 of the head of the tie. A turn of the Wire is then taken around the hook N, as shown in Figs. land 2, thus completing the practical application of the band and tie to the bale.

I claim- A bale tie or look constructed substantially as herein described, and for the purpose specified. 1

GEORGE W. MOULTON. Witnesses:

J. H. BURRIDGE, E. W. GEoss. 

